{"id":5638,"date":"2009-09-18T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-betting-week-2-picks\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T20:40:00","slug":"nfl-betting-week-2-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-betting-week-2-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Betting – Week 2 Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NFL Betting<\/span><\/b><\/a>: <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/font>Oakland<\/span><\/b><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Raiders @ Kansas City Chiefs<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

The Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs will square off in Week 2 and we’ll get a quick indication of which team’s encouraging performance in Week 1 was for real and which was just offseason optimism. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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The Raiders gave the San Diego Chargers a run for their money – even holding a late fourth quarter lead – until the Chargers drove down the field and eventually won the game. <\/span><\/font>Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> played well in their opening contest and had the lead in Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> as well, scaring a lot of people making their suicide picks, before the Chiefs flamed out near the end of the game. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The big difference this week for the Chiefs should be that they get quarterback<\/span> Matt Cassel back in the lineup. <\/span><\/font>Cassel<\/st1:place> is questionable with a knee injury but he has been practicing sparingly and may get on the field. If he does, it will be his debut in a Chiefs uniform and he will be at home. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Believe it or not, but the Raiders have more of an explosive offense with speed at a number of positions. And at quarterback, they may have the better player if <\/span><\/font>Cassel<\/st1:place> is unable to go. Take a shot with the Raiders in this tight AFC West contest.<\/p>\n

NFL Picks<\/a>: Raiders<\/p>\n

NFL Week 2 Matchups<\/span><\/b><\/a>: <\/span><\/b>Houston<\/span><\/b><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Texans @ Tennessee Titans<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Talk about being desperate for a win, the Houston Texans are going to feel that way this week. The Texans, who were one of the sexy sleepers that everyone thought might finally break through in teh<\/span> AFC South, had a very discouraging loss in Week 1 to the New York Jets and their offense couldn’t get anything going. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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The Tennessee Titans are also desperate for a win as they lost in overtime in their regular season opener and loss here also puts them to 0-2. As a matter of fact, that would give them as many losses as they had all of last year. <\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The Texans are the more explosive team in this matchup but the problem is that they don’t have the better defense. They also don’t have home field advantage. The Titans will be able to run the ball at home and that will be the difference. <\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Look for <\/span><\/font>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> to put up a fight but in the end, the Titans will move to 1-1 while the Texans will drop to 0-2.<\/p>\n

Online Racebook<\/span><\/a> Picks: Titans<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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NFL Betting: Oakland Raiders @ Kansas City Chiefs The Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs will square off in Week 2 and we’ll get a quick indication of which team’s encouraging performance in Week 1 was for real and which was just offseason optimism.   The Raiders gave the San Diego Chargers a run for … Continue reading NFL Betting – Week 2 Picks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}